ADVENTURES IN GRANDPARENTING!!

The week started off slow, like most weeks, but as the week went on it gathered steam until it was going full blast.  Thursday, April & Luke left on their trip to Cancun and Brent & I had their two kids for a couple of days.  Thankfully, they are very good kids. Trisha & family arrived Thursday afternoon and then left Friday morning for Matt's Lotoja bike ride.  They left their 4 kids with us.  Now the excitement & chaos is increasing.   Friday night 14 of our 16 grandkids came to our "Fright Night" sleepover plus some of their parents (ie. Katie & Camille).  At 7:00 pm the fun began.  We all watced "The Blob" - old version.  And if that was not scary enough, we then watched "The Fly" - the old version too.  The kids had a great time, were mildly scared and ate up a lot of goodies too.  It was so much fun watching them watch these old movies.  Finally it was bedtime.  In the morning, they all got up and wanted to finish their movies watching "The Return of the Fly" which was sort of lame they said.  After that they wanted breakfast & of course I had to feed them.  We all really had a fun time together.  Saturday Meg took Jaren, Avery, Kylie & Lauren over to her house to stay.  Camille, Randy & boys plus Ethan & Raegan went over till bedtime and then returned back here to stay.  Katie & her boys also went to Meg's, so Dad & I had a few hours alone which we spent watching the BYU game.   Sunday after church I came home & started to cook.  Dinner was at our house tonight.  Trisha & Matt returned home from Jackson Hole and everyone else who wasn't here came for dinner.  We got to eat outside before the weather turned rainy.  About 8:00 everyone went home except Trisha & family.  But life was just picking up steam!  Monday morning we got up, got ready and went to St. George - The Combe family, The Foote family, and Celine & Aliah.  We were staying in one of our friends condo and Monday night going to Tuachan to see "The Little Mermaid" - just the girls.  Oh so much fun.  Tuesday morning when everyone left, it was so quiet.  Dad & I just sat around and did nothing for the whole day.  It was so nice & peaceful.  But actually part of our hearts were gone, for you see, wherever our grandkids go, so do our hearts.  But we know we will all be together again at some point in the future and the chaos will start again.  Now to clean my house !   :(